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Judith Herrin, ‘Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire’

There’s a great anecdote at the start of Byzantium. The author – a Professor of Byzantine History at […]

January 31, 2021 Historical Non-Fiction

Karen Maitland, ‘Company of Liars’ Review

I think it’s best to start with the parts of Company of Liars – Karen Maitland’s ‘novel of […]

January 17, 2021 Literature

Tim Wigmore and Freddie Wilde, ‘Cricket 2.0’ Review

Cricket 2.0 is a book that’s got the cricket community talking in the last year. Wisden, the sport’s […]

January 8, 2021 sport, Uncategorized

Mark Twain, ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ Review

Although I briefly reviewed The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in my ‘November Reading: Recap’ post, it’s such a beautifully constructed […]

December 28, 2020 Literature

November Reading: Recap

November was quite a busy month for me, so I haven’t found the time to post any reviews […]

December 14, 2020 Historical Non-Fiction, Literature

Beryl Bainbridge, ‘The Bottle Factory Outing’, Review

Packed into only 192 pages, The Bottle Factory Outing is a real gem of a novel. I actually […]

October 28, 2020 Literature

Tom Holland, ‘Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom’ Review

Millennium is Tom Holland’s panoramic journey through the two centuries either side of the year 1000. It is, in […]

October 23, 2020 Historical Non-Fiction

Tom Holland, ‘In the Shadow of the Sword: The Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World’ Review

With a cast of characters including communism preaching Persian mystics, pillar-topping stylites and warrior-scholars, it’s hard not to […]

October 7, 2020 Historical Non-Fiction

Reading Log

We are now three quarters of the way through the disaster that is 2020 – only three more […]

October 1, 2020 Uncategorized

Ian McEwan, ‘Machines Like Me’ Review

I raced through Machines Like Me. The narrative was gripping and enriched by a sense of foreboding. It […]

September 12, 2020 Uncategorized

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